Mengru Han

Biographic Data

ID7548640
NAMEMengru Han
GIVEN NAMESMengru
FAMILY NAMEHan
SIGNATUREHAN M
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
ORCID0000-0002-2231-5922
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Neuro-cognitive correlates of lexical borrowing during sentence comprehension of bi-dialectal speakers

    Open AccessJunru Wu, Mengru Han et al.ARTICLEBilingualism Language and Cognition2026

    This study explores lexical borrowing and loanword nativization from a neuro-cognitive perspective testing bi-dialectal speakers of Standard Chinese and Shanghainese Chinese. We created holistic and morpheme-based cross-dialectal loanwords for auditory sentence processing and compared them with Shanghainese-specific words, code-switches, and pre-existing etymologically related words. Participants rated their acceptance of each word, indicating Sh…

  • Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children’s vocabulary size

    Open AccessMengru Han, Nivja H De Jong et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2024

    This study examines correlations between the prosody of infant-directed speech (IDS) and children’s vocabulary size. We collected longitudinal speech data and vocabulary information from Dutch mother-child dyads with children aged 18 ( N = 49) and 24 ( N = 27) months old. We took speech context into consideration and distinguished between prosody when mothers introduce familiar vs. unfamiliar words to their children. The results show that IDS mea…

  • Language Specificity of Infant-directed Speech: Speaking Rate and Word Position in Word-learning Contexts

    Open AccessMengru Han, Nivja H De Jong et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2021

    Previous research indicates that infant-directed speech (IDS) is usually slower than adult-directed speech (ADS) and mothers prefer placing a focused word in isolation or utterance-final position in (English) IDS, which may benefit word learning. This study investigated the speaking rate and word position of IDS in two typologically-distinct languages: Dutch and Mandarin Chinese. We used a storybook-telling task to elicit semi-spontaneous ADS and…

  • Pitch properties of infant-directed speech specific to word-learning contexts: A cross-linguistic investigation of Mandarin Chinese and Dutch

    Open AccessMengru Han, Nivja H De Jong et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2020

    This study investigates the pitch properties of infant-directed speech (IDS) specific to word-learning contexts in which mothers introduce unfamiliar words to children. Using a semi-spontaneous story-book telling task, we examined (1) whether mothers made distinctions between unfamiliar and familiar words with pitch in IDS compared to adult-directed speech (ADS); (2) whether pitch properties change when mothers address children from 18 to 24 mont…